Nigeria kidnapped schoolgirls

Tuesday 13 May 2014 11:57 BST

A total of 276 girls were abducted from the northeastern town of Chibok, in Borno state, which has a sizeable Christian community. Some 223 are still missing

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The continued disappearance of hundreds of kidnapped Nigerian girls is sparking global public outrage. More than 300 teenage schoolgirls have been abducted from the Chibok Government Girls Secondary School in northeast Nigeria by the Boko Haram, Islamic extremists group. At least 53 girls are known to have escaped.

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